Blue Wolf Reviews

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  • Simple Soulful Sacred: A Woman’s Guide to Clarity, Comfort and Coming Home to Herself

    Simple Soulful Sacred: A Woman’s Guide to Clarity, Comfort and Coming Home to Herself

    Simple Soulful Sacred describes this beautiful book perfectly as the words are just that, designed and carefully selected to appeal to women everywhere, their inner selves, that sacred place that is there within us all, often hidden, forgotten and in need of refreshing, rejuvenating, allowed to be an integral component of who we are: Woman.

    ‘I Am Woman’ became a mantra for women in the 1970’s; a time of emancipation, freedom and a time when women everywhere looked to a brighter future. Somewhere along the journey the shine has tarnished, many women drowning in exhaustion, overworked, frazzled beyond tolerable levels with far too much expected from them in their daily lives.

    Burnt out is now the mantra of the modern women of the 2000’s, many beginning to want to feel whole, vibrant, healthy and happy in their daily lives. But in all the madness, they have no idea how to achieve what they truly desire.

    Over many years carrying out research with a diverse cross section of women, Megan Dalla-Camina has discovered the main points women want in their lives. A feeling of sacredness, peacefulness, comfort, well-being, simplicity, liveliness, womanhood and sovereignty, simply some of the words used, words she has taken and expounded upon, that can and will help guide you onto a fresh new pathway to discovering who you are as you emerge into your own sacredness and power.

    Dalla-Camina has allowed the work to be gentle, full of love and personal experience which can be read from cover to cover, taking each affirmation and subject area as it is set out, or after reading the Introduction it can be used to pose questions to ponder upon, as a daily affirmation, another perspective or simply as a way to reach out and know there is love and understanding simply waiting to be accepted.

    Divided into Ten sections there truly is an answer there to be found about the questions needing to be asked in and about your life, all couched in love and understanding of the same journey travelled.

    Each of the sub-titles automatically bring a with them a gentle smile, sometimes admittedly a little wry, a few words of wisdom from many wise, wonderful people such as Hellen Keller, Abraham Lincoln, T.S. Elliot, Simone De Beauvoir, Buddha, and more, followed with a lovely explanation to what is being offered before concluding with a heart-warming affirmation.

    Full of wisdom, inspiration and in so many ways healing, this is a perfect guide into a fresh, new awakening of feminine power that will make a massive difference in the lives of not just women but all the people who are a part of their very existence.

    Should permission be needed to begin the journey, Simple Soulful Sacred could be considered as just that!

  • Do Big Small Things

    Do Big Small Things

    This is all about dreaming Big and following up, recording, learning and enjoying whatever it is you desire or set out to accomplish. This is about your journey across this place called the World, a place on which you live, love and eventually move on.

    Each page in this amazingly creative and encouraging journal is special; special because it comes from someone who has been or is engaged with living their life and offering something they have learned to you.

    See special. The first chapter if that is what you would like to call it deals with this thing called Freedom, a word that means so many different things to people, but essentially is a word that is a part of something bigger. There is a very colourful map showing you the different steps to letting that feeling, that freedom feeling, take you on to the next place, the next step.

    In this section, as there is in all the sections, there is a lively piece from Kari relating to a journey taken throughout Northern Vietnam, the people on the bus and the moment when unity was achieved through laughter.

    Span the Generations offers a look at the history, celebrations and festivals that make up various cultures, the circle of life and the passion that should accompany the many things you undertake in your life.

    Colourful, enjoyable, invigorating, with some wonderful photos to go with the eclectic artworks, the timeless  face of the Warrior who lives in the Rainforest, peeps out from his clay mask. His name is Delfin and he gave to his friend Bruce Poon Tip, the sage advice that ‘life is measured not by how many people you know, but by the meaningful connections you make’; two unlikely friends both enjoying a friendship spanning more than 20 years: one from the rainforests and one from the urban forests.

    Adrienne offers a poignant reflection on her time spent backpacking in Nepal where she met the incredible women from the SASANE group who help some of the thousands of women who are sold or captured into human trafficking and prostitution every year.

    The underlying intent of the book is to reach out via many mediums to encourage you to take that first step, to make that connection, to treasure that memory that line in a book or on a temple wall, that poem, but most of all to set out on your journey, to make the most of every moment, to enjoy, live, love, laugh and learn from the experience.

    As with all diary’s it is meant to be kept to reflect back on that special time in your life, to enjoy with family and friends and to be left as a memory when it is your time to move on. The medium is simply perfect for achieving all those things.

    Enjoy your special, unique, journey!